Pensoft Publishers

Company profile

Pensoft Publishers company profile

Pensoft is an independent academic publishing company, well known among biodiversity scientists worldwide for technologically cutting-edge open access journals, such as: ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ), PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, Nature Conservation, NeoBiota, and Comparative Cytogenetics. Founded in 1992 in Bulgaria, by academics, for academics, initially focusing on book publishing, it has grown to become an innovative and leading open access journal publisher. Pensoft has published more than 1000 books and over 4,000 open access articles, mostly in the field of natural history. Pensoft is a member or partner of: CrossRef, OASPA, CLOCKSS, Research Data Alliance (RDA), OpenAIRE, Dryad Data Repository, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Encyclopedia of Life, and others. Pensoft journal content is indexed by: PubMedCentral, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, BIOSIS, Google Scholar, DOAJ, Zoological Record, International Plant Name Index (IPNI), CAB Abstracts, Wikispecies, Vifabio, BHL Citebank, Globalnames, JournalMap. Pensoft are also well known as a book publisher and are specialists in dissemination of scientific information for more than 15 projects from the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union.